02962nam 2200649Ia 450 991079244520332120171026195700.01-282-44515-497866124451560-472-02388-810.3998/mpub.92892(CKB)2670000000016556(EBL)3414615(OCoLC)652179865(SSID)ssj0000430509(PQKBManifestationID)11307799(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430509(PQKBWorkID)10453008(PQKB)11459204(MiAaPQ)EBC3414615(MdBmJHUP)muse8578(MiU)10.3998/mpub.92892(Au-PeEL)EBL3414615(CaPaEBR)ebr10360129(CaONFJC)MIL244515(EXLCZ)99267000000001655620041227d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe "vanity of the philosopher" from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics /Sandra J. Peart & David M. LevyAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,c2005.1 online resource (344 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-472-11496-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and indexes.Analytical egalitarianism and its opposition -- Perceiving race and hierarchy -- Hierarchy and transformation : "chemical political economy" -- Denying human homogeneity : eugenics and the making of postclassical economics -- Statistical prejudice : from eugenics to immigration -- Picking losers for sterilization : eugenics as demographic central planning -- Sympathy and its discontents : "greatest happiness" versus the "general good" -- "Who are the canters?" : the coalition of evangelical-economic egalitarians -- A discipline without sympathy : the happiness of the majority and its demise -- Darwin and the differential capacity for happiness : from cardinal to ordinal utility theory -- Analytical egalitarianism, anecdotal evidence, and information aggregation via proverbial wisdom -- Sympathy and the past : our "stock in dead people" reconsidered -- Postscript : a letter from M. Ali Khan.EconomicsHistory19th centuryClassical school of economicsEqualityEconomic aspectsEugenicsEconomic aspectsEconomicsHistoryClassical school of economics.EqualityEconomic aspects.EugenicsEconomic aspects.330.153Peart Sandra121859Levy David M.1944-121588Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiUMiUBOOK9910792445203321The "vanity of the philosopher"3686575UNINA